Banana-crate.



No. 655,00. Patented July 3|, woo.

A. a .1. SANSONE.

BANANA CRATE.

(Application filed Mar. 31I 1900.!

(No Model.)

WITNESSES N YEQAZTORS m NITED, STATES;

PATENT OFFICE.

ANTONIO SANSONE AND JOHN SANSONE, or KEOKUK, IOWA.

BANANA-CRATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 655,017, dated. July 31, 1900. Application filed Maroh 31, 1900. Serial No. 10,931. (No model.)

ble band 6, which bands are held firmly in T0 on whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ANTONIO SANSONE and JOHN SANSONE, citizens of the United States, and residents of Keokuk, in the county of Lee and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Banana-Crate, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description;

This invention relates to a crate for packing bananas and other fruit, in which a bunch of bananas is'held securely in a sack supported out of contact with the crate propert'. 6., the rigid framing of the cratethus preventing bruising the fruit.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of the invention, while the claim defines the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had'to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the inven-' tion, and Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof. The crate comprises a rigid cylindrical frame structure, forming theorate proper and consisting of a base a, on which suitable slats b are erected. At the top of theslats b a rim or hoop o is fastened rigidly to join the slats together, and intermediate hoops cl are fastened to the slats, as shown, to complete the crate proper. These intermediate hoops 01 may be of any desired form, either of wire, as shown, or of wood.

Arranged within the crate proper, at each of the hoops cand d, is a cloth or other flexi concentric relation to the hoops c and cl, but

out of contact therewith, by seizings f, of cord.

or the like. To these flexible bands 6 is secured, by sewing or otherwise, a sack g, which extends downward inside of the crate proper into proximity to the base a, yet out of con tact therewith. A bunch of bananas or other fruit is placed within the sack g, and the top of the sack may be closed, as shown, to secure the fruit. The fruit thus arranged will be held in the sack out of contact with the crate proper, and the bruising of the fruit is thus prevented. This arrangement provides an efiective means for transporting fruit of ,all sorts.

ings extending from the band outward to the crate to yieldingly support the sack.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANTONIO SANSONE, JOHN SANSONE.

Witnesses:

J. P. WHETSTONE, SHERMAN I. RUTLEDGE. 

